I Dont' Like Cricket, Oh No, I Love it, Yeah

[Twizzle]

Fair enough mate. Let’s agree to disagree. I clearly don’t know the actual medical diagnosis and am purely going off the fact he came out and played pretty bloody well for an hour.

Smith in his presser said he looked terrible, especially after he made a run or two.

 

[strider]

I had some weird ass gatro or food poisoning thing before xmas ... and it was weird as shit, never had anything like it ... so if there is something going round and Root got it then i dont blame him at all

In reality, yes i am an old softcock and hes a young professional sportsman, but i 9wuldnt particularly like to end up at the scg with badly soiled duds

 

[Happy MEel]

Smith in his presser said he looked terrible, especially after he made a run or two.

I have no doubt he looked and felt like shit. My issue is whether that was enough to keep him from coming out to bat to save an Ashes test match as captain of the English cricket team.

 

[Twizzle]

yeh, I got that about 2 pages back

He was unconscious and would not have saved them if he was 100% fit. He cant bat at both ends.

 

[strider]

I have no doubt he looked and felt like shit. My issue is whether that was enough to keep him from coming out to bat to save an Ashes test match as captain of the English cricket team.

The rest of his team has shown little inclination to tough it out - i dont blame him

Perhaps if there were 5 overs or so to go and a wicket in hand he might have got out there

 

[Bazal]

From previous posts I reckon you have played reasonably high grade cricket. (Who knows...We may have even played in the same side at Oakhill considering you were only a few years younger than me). Do you think you could have faced up comfortably to probably the best attack you have ever come up against when you were suffering Norovirus?

I don't know, I never had to. I could almost certainly give it a go. If I was ever one of the four or five best bats in my competition (as Root is) who had just spent 6-8 hours being loaded up with IV fluids and medication I might even look somewhat ok given just how much of batting is pure muscle memory. Until I inevitably shat myself, that is.

I scored a T20 fifty against Michael Spaseski and Vele Dukoski with a concussion so bad I don't actually remember the innings thanks to a Dukoski short ball, so who knows?

 

[strider]

I don't know, I never had to. I could almost certainly give it a go. If I was ever one of the four or five best bats in my competition (as Root is) who had just spent 6-8 hours being loaded up with IV fluids and medication I might even look somewhat ok given just how much of batting is pure muscle memory. Until I inevitably shat myself, that is.

I scored a T20 fifty against Michael Spaseski and Vele Dukoski with a concussion so bad I don't actually remember the innings thanks to a Dukoski short ball, so who knows?

The Macedonian mawlers

 

[Happy MEel]

I don't know, I never had to. I could almost certainly give it a go. If I was ever one of the four or five best bats in my competition (as Root is) who had just spent 6-8 hours being loaded up with IV fluids and medication I might even look somewhat ok given just how much of batting is pure muscle memory. Until I inevitably shat myself, that is.

I scored a T20 fifty against Michael Spaseski and Vele Dukoski with a concussion so bad I don't actually remember the innings thanks to a Dukoski short ball, so who knows?

Well than you have my vote for the English captaincy.

For the record I have NFI who either of those bowlers are.

 

[Bazal]

The Macedonian mawlers

I think they're Croatian tbh.

Either way they're both f**kwits. Is that a nationality?

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

And I stand by everything I said about him. The bloke is staring down 35 years old with maybe another year left in him and shouldn't have been selected. Just because he's batted well (which I never said he wouldn't) doesn't mean picking him was the right call.

I actually like the guy, especially by comparison to most of the blokes on this forum who would have you think he's at the same level as Rob Quiney. I just didn't see the point in selecting him over someone with a future like Travis Head (for eg) given his age and injury history and I don't believe him scoring runs changes anything.

The point in picking him was to maximise our chance of winning this series. The Ashes isn't a player development series.

 

[Happy MEel]

The rest of his team has shown little inclination to tough it out - i dont blame him

Perhaps if there were 5 overs or so to go and a wicket in hand he might have got out there

That’s where leadership comes into play. A role I don’t think Root is suited but a tough bloodnut like Bairstow is

 

[Bazal]

Well than you have my vote for the English captaincy.

For the record I have NFI who either of those bowlers are.

No one will probably, they're Comets bowlers and no one even realises the Comets still exist lol.

 

[Happy MEel]

No one will probably, they're Comets bowlers and no one even realises the Comets still exist lol.

Who the f**k are the comets?

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Well than you have my vote for the English captaincy.

For the record I have NFI who either of those bowlers are.

Spacker and the Duckman are a couple of nuffies in Canberra grade cricket. Imagine any TV series where there get an actor who has never played cricket to try and bowl, and multiply the result by 100, and then make it so the ball was actually bowled by a girl with a middle-ear infection, and you've got the quality of these two blokes pretty much down pat.

 

[Bazal]

Who the f**k are the comets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_Comets

Their greatest ever achievement was signing Merv Hughes and Mark Higgs. Merv used to bowl his ten straight at half pace then nick off to the corporate tents and sink piss.

Actually I think Higgsy is still trundling out on a zimmer frame somewhere in Canberra. The greatest all rounder never to play Test cricket, just ask him.

 

[Happy MEel]

Spacker and the Duckman are a couple of nuffies in Canberra grade cricket. Imagine any TV series where there get an actor who has never played cricket to try and bowl, and multiply the result by 100, and then make it so the ball was actually bowled by a girl with a middle-ear infection, and you've got the quality of these two blokes pretty much down pat.

Sounds like a quality opening duo. I think Bazal’s concussion may have affected his analysis of these two dynamos

Edit: I much prefer your names for said pacemen

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_Comets

Their greatest ever achievement was signing Merv Hughes and Mark Higgs. Merv used to bowl his ten straight at half pace then nick off to the corporate tents and sink piss.

Actually I think Higgsy is still trundling out on a zimmer frame somewhere in Canberra. The greatest all rounder never to play Test cricket, just ask him.

They also produced Stuart Karpinnen, who has gone on to good things in the coaching trade.

 

[Bazal]

Spacker and the Duckman are a couple of nuffies in Canberra grade cricket. Imagine any TV series where there get an actor who has never played cricket to try and bowl, and multiply the result by 100, and then make it so the ball was actually bowled by a girl with a middle-ear infection, and you've got the quality of these two blokes pretty much down pat.

I remember playing a previous T20 maybe two years ago, one of our boys hit Spastic for four back to back and he storms down the wicket and goes "f**k you mate, I'll be in the f**king Big Bash next season so watch out..." Decent enough cricketer (better than Ryan Gibson lol) but my god he's a special kind of f**kwit

 

[strider]

That’s where leadership comes into play. A role I don’t think Root is suited but a tough bloodnut like Bairstow is

I noticed yesterday in the stinking hot, some cut a ball behind point and there was no fielder there ... Bairstow has thrown both gloves off immediately and taken off from the stumps to field it .... was definitely showing plenty of toughness and leadership

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Sounds like a quality opening duo. I think Bazal’s concussion may have affected his analysis of these two dynamos

Edit: I much prefer your names for said pacemen

They'll only answer to those names. If you call them by their given names they'll just blank you.